- Depend on logstash-core-plugin-api instead of logstash-core, removing the need to mass update plugins on major releases of logstash
- New dependency requirements for logstash-core for the 5.0 release
- Backward compatible support for
Event#from_json
method logstash-plugins#19
- Directly use buftok to avoid indirection through the line codec logstash-plugins#18
- Support for customizable delimiter
- Fixed Timestamp check in specs
- Plugins were updated to follow the new shutdown semantic, this mainly allows Logstash to instruct input plugins to terminate gracefully, instead of using Thread.raise on the plugins' threads. Ref: elastic/logstash#3895
- Dependency on logstash-core update to 2.0
- Improve documentation to warn about using this codec with a line oriented input.
- light refactor of decode method